davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-07-09

staying on the ship. But after much
hard work and trouble some of the people
were safely landed, and from them it
was learned that there were 600
souls on the vessel. This was appalling
news. The landing by the car was so
slow, not more than one or two being
brought at a trip, that 1t was manifestly
impossible to save one-fifth of them that
way, and unless the ship should hold to-
gether until the surf went down suffi-
GENTLY to send boats out, nearly all
would be lost.
The veteran surfmen shook their heads
as they spoke of this chance, for they
we'll knew that oak and iron could not
long withstand those terrible blows from
natures battering ram. And only too
soon their fears were realized and the
ship began to break up. Then a climax
of horror was reached that in its reality of
terror outshadowed Dante's blacklist
fancy. The shrieks and walls became mad
dening. Men and women fought their way
into the rigging, where they hung, sway
ing and begging for help till numbed by
cold and exhaustion they would drop to
death into the seething abyss below.
And all the while each wave as 1t swept
over the deck took with 1t struggling
human freight. The Generalization on
the ship was so complete that the life car
was abandoned, and the would-be savers
on the beach could do nothing but stand
idly by and watch the terrible work of
death.
The vessel began to break up about
noon, by which time news of the dis
aster had spread far and wide, and
crowds came flocking to the beach. The
writer, who was then of very tender
years, can distinctly remember how the
"family coach" was hooked up" In
haste to 20 to the wreck, the bitter tears
she shed on being told she was "too lit
tie to 60 to such places" and also the
"envy, hatred and malice" she felt for an
older and more fortunate sister. A
thousand people soon collected on the
shore; but thousand were as futile to
cave as one, and the despair of their
helplessness but perfected the picture of
general desolation. Men rushed blindly
over the heavy wet sand, some cursing,
some praying, many sobbing aloud.
Women shrieked and tainted, and not
q few attempted to rush into the sea
and meanwhile this terrible sea kept ON
its terrible, pitiless work. The ship was
iron-hearted, and slowly one by one she
yielded her limbs to the destroyer. But
the fight was too unequal. Suddenly a
wilder, more terrific shrek rose from the
deck-a shrek which the crowd caught,
and sent wailing back again a scarcely
less wild echo. The vessel had parted
midship, and the stern with all its load
of human life was swallowed by the
waves. That shrek was the death-knell
of only the last great day will tell how
many.
1t seemed as If this wholesale sacrifice
appeased In measure the demon of the
|. storm, for soon after the surf began to
fall and in few hours boats were sent
out to what was left of the ship, and the
few half-drowned creatures who were
still clinging to the rigging were rescued.
These, added to those already landed in
the life-car, made but few over 100 in all
who were saved of the 600 on the ship.
At least this is the number generally &C
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-07-09
Convicted Of Plagiarism.

Some time since Professor de Ruyter Bangs,
an honorary member residing in Columbus,
O., sent in the following poem to contest for
the annual spring prize voted by the Lime
Kiln Club. The committee thought they dis
covered the fine Italian hand of plagiarism
in it, and it was laid aside for further inves-
tigation. Waydown Bebee now reported
that the committee had indisputable evil
dence that the poem was stolen bodily from
the work of the Sweet Singer of Michigan.
Here are three of the twenty-seven verses:
One night when sought my couch,
All tired out and fOrlorn,
An angel appeared to me and said
you'll marry man named Henry Smith
Rogers"
The days rolled swiftly past,
And was almost discouraged,
When father hired q new man,
And he was the one of my dreams.
And SO you see how fate
Will sometimes WOO us on,
And how no girl should despair
Because she has no beau.
On motion of Trustee Pullback the matter
of expelling the professor was put to vote,
and he was expelled at the rate of forty miles
an hour.-Detr0tt Free Press.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-07-09
GOLDEN THOUGHTS.

Death is the beginning of life which
does not end in death.-Rev. e. Mead.
Things are sullen and will be as they
are, whatever we think them or wish them to
be- Cudg0rth.
Time is infinitely long, and every day
isa vessel into which much may be poured if
we fill it up to the brim.-G Goethe.
Cannot God who first gave life to
matter give resurrection to body from which
life hath departed -Ahenagoras.
Every fancy that we would substitute
for reality, is, If we saw Alright. and saw the
whole, not only false, but every way less
beautiful and excellent than that which we
sacrifice to it.-Sterlsng.
The proud man hath no God; the
envious man hath no neighbor; the angry man
hath not himself. What good, then, in being
a man, if one has neither himself nor a
neighbor in God 2-Bishop Hail.
Fight like good soldier; and If thou
sometimes fall through frailty, take again
greater strength than before, trusting in thy
more abundant grace; and take heed of vain
pleasing of thyself and of Thomas
d-Kenapis.
We may say that, partly from our own
badness and partly from theirs, all mankind,
kindred and strangers, are a trial to our
patience in some way or other. When we are
engaged with others in any kind of work, or
are constantly in society of others, our
patience is often exercised. We encounter
stupid, ill-tempered, or importunate people.
and we do not remember to look at each such
meeting as a gift from God, who is going to
watch how we behave, and visit US accord
ingly-F w. Faber
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-07-09
'W0RTH|NCTON'S.''
WHAT 1T IS.

DIR. wORTHINGTON's CHOLERA AND
DIARRHEA MEDICINE Is the formula
aud prescription of a distinguished ply
stefan, whose name 1t bears, and has been In
use fer over twenty five years, the acknOwI-
edged specific for all those troubles OF tho
stomach and bowels which result from
change of climate, weather and diet, from
the oppressive heat of summer and ma
IariaI poison. 1t has withstOOd the crucial
test of experiment, and eminently deserves
the award of a perfect medicine. Upon
these established merits IL has become q
proprietary preparation, of which the un-
dersigned are the sole proprietors; but
unlike such generally 1t has long since
been adopted Into the practice Of the lead
ing physicians of the South. So popular
did 1t become n remedy for camp dysen-
terry and diarrhoea, Incident to gross food.
long marches and damp beds In the
southern Army, that Surgeon General
Moore. C. S. a., made the following requisi-
tion: eff DIR. worthington can furnish
large quantities Of his medicine, we will
place It In the army as q remedy for bowel
affections" It was afterward prepared for
this purpose by the barrelful and wrought
marvellous cures; indeed, 1t was the never
failing specific which sustained the health
and strength of the war-worn veterans.
Not less effective where the latent germs of
cholera develop into q striding plague, IL
is equally sure and curative In cases of
Summer Complaint taken in accordance
with directionsl. and no mother need look
with dread upon the ordinary bowel COM
plants Of her infant while this great rem
edy can be had of every druggist. It's spe-
as aIor,ling even u chance OF producing
too radical u change or rapid reaction. On
the contrary, its operation is gentle and Its
main virtue is warmth giving sustenance
to the depleted functions, which It rebuilds
and revives. To all arrangements Of the
bowels there is a consequent arrangement
of the stomach, expressed in dyspepsia, in
digestion and cramps. for which Ii is In
like manner n sure cure. Eminent ply
sicians make no hesitation In certifying to
its curative elements and manifest no re-
Iuctance In saying that they use 1t with I'M
varying success In their general practice.
Distinguished people of other ranks testify
to benefits they have derived from IL, and
upon such basis 1t is fully worthy Of the
confidence of the public and Of the profess
sion. At the low price of 25 cents it IL
within the reach of all.
THE CHARLES A. vOGELER CO..
Baltimore, Md.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-07-09

A Southern lecturer says the ladies in that
part of the Union wear starched collars and
corsets" Southern ladies must be mighty
"stuck up" From what we have seen of
the corset, at distance, we should say it was
stiff enough without being starched.-Norris
fOoa Herald
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-07-09
And a Sweet Girl Graduate,

AT the graduation exercises of the Cincin-
natl Wesleyan college one ofthe 81 xteen young
lady graduates deliberately stole ten or fif-
teen of the handsome floral pieces intended
for classmates. The affair caused such a
rumpus that the girl was compelled to give
back some of the flowers, although she still
has several designs not belonging to her.
IT. IntI Pioneer Press
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-07-09

A man from Shady Bayou went into a
bar-room, and, seeing an Italian playing on
a harp, he turned in great establishment and
thus addressed the bartender:
"rve seen heap Nv makeshifts, but this
one beats 'em all.'
"What?"
81 say, that fellow over thar beats 'em all
Eff er fellow had er told me that a man could
snatch music often the CORPS l wouldn't e-
b'Peved him, but I'll be blamed if this Teller
aint-a-doin' NV it,"
IVY man, that's harp"
SER harpW he exclaimed. "Wall, I'll
agree that amt got the best eyesight in the
world, but I'll be dinged eff didn't think it
wuZ the bottom NV one NV these here bed
steads that's got cords. "-Arkansaw Traveller
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-07-09

cepted as correct, although many people
claim that one of the officers who was
saved put Il at between 800 and
1000. Be the number either, the "New
Era" claims and is justly entitled to the
distinction of being the most terrible
wreck of the Jersey coast At that time
there was not house on the beach be-
tween Great pond and Shark river
Uook at Asbury Park alone to-day and
try to realize that. Also try to realize
that a man willing to give fifty cents an
acre for the land then would have been
considered demented.) The station-house
was quite near the creek, but the accom-
modations there were both meagre and
scant, and many of the rescued would
have suffered sadly and possibly have
died but for the noble hearted generosity
of Mr.. and Mrs. Abner Allen, whose hos
pitable home stood then, as now, a short
distance north of the station-house
Here most of the sufferers were taken,
and here they received every care and
comfort those two true old-fashioned
Quaker hearts could give them. Mr..
Allen and his wife have both been gath
cred to their rest, but the story of their
ministrations to those brothers in their
dark trial will long be bright and shin
ing monument to their memory.
The sight that met the men who first
went out to the ship is said to have been
study of horrors. Among the debris on
the decks and in the rigging were corpses
in every conceivable condition-some
stark and stiff, Others twisted and doubled
out of shape and not a few with limbs
forcibly torn off and otherwise mutt
lated. remember one case particularly
CHASTITY. A woman was seen In the rig
ging. Her eyes were wide open and the
swaying of the mast made her seem to be
motioning for help. The men hurried to
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-07-09
Too High Feeding.

Sam-Uncle Esom, l don't know what's
de matter wild dis boss Use sartin feeds
him high ernuff
Uncle Esom-Dat's jist what's de matter.
70 feeds him so high dat he can't reach it.
TEXAS Siftings.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-07-09

her and found her stark dead.
This is but one of many Incl
dents that happened then and
afterward. For, although the
destruction of the ship closed
the first chapter of the tragedy,
a second soon opened in the
casting up of the bodies. This
began almost Immediately, and
the beach, from Sandy Hook to
Barnegat inlet, was strewn with
them; the greater number,
however, being found between
Seabright and Great pond.
Near these places nearly every
available building was con-
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-07-09

A Lowell minister preached last Sunday on
why Do the Wicked Live?' We don't
know surely why they do, but we might sug-
gest mildly that if the wicked didn't live it
would be cold day for the ministers.-Sum-
rlefville Journal
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-07-09

Miller's son just returned from college
Father, do you believe the centre of that
shaft is turning2 pointing to revolving
shaft.
Miller-No know it isn't.
SOn-(somewhat disconcerted)-
can you explain Why it doesn't?
Miller-Certainly-i is hollow.-Detroit
Free Press
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-07-09

When praying to God to punish your enc
mics il is well to ascertain what your enc
mics are doing in the meantime.-W Whitehall
Times.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-07-09
Where Can | Get Good Tea ?"

In order TO oiye an tntellfgibl. ~
sponse TO the inosirv "Where can Toet
good Tear q Is only desired TO kno,o
call tea Is simply the leaves of the tea
plant passed through a process not more
oW'c~t mdn "e "'d*'''g " good o"'-
Ter. 1he d,Derence oef'oeen COCA Tea
ana poor tea :" large measure depena'
upo" the age OF me feaj-that V,
inc young ana tender teaves "n'c"
pro" N Ms spring arc ~" o. juice
ana sap. ~" Mese thdt MAKE COCA ted'
/J'e' Me same 'eay may naoe g'o~''
yor say tnres '0eeSs, :" w" % mae"
larger o. course o@ "," nos proo"ce
.nds ae''cote pooor ana r'c" s're',g"
"at t"e sans eedJ "nen young '0o"a.
many 'eas "npoT'eu ''teo "'s co""t'y
arc maze from inc n'dtHred seooes oe-
eo"se s"ey MAKE Ho's 'eoo 1"ey ~" ~
"o's '0ort"'esS' "e 'edoeS p'e' w aS'o"
oe'ng od's' "'s.p'a ava 'd' 70 '"e 'a@e,
'o"te o" "e contrary 'ne yo"ng eed "
J'"e 'ea ''Ne He-1'o WYE, "''"e'
n;s .,,., 49,. H. W. 4. .,,d, q, On.
early spring, and before the leaf has
attained IT'S JUL groofh, that u hds me
qndNty ph'cn VIC ctoHW JoT w. OH
Po""d % te''deT young tfopes possesses
"o'e 'ed' 'ea e1''de' '"a" '"O y, ""'.
Po"""e ~ W" .u',S. ~" ~ ~, ~
p', y ~ ' ~ a. -.
~. .,a~,n..,.. ..,,.,d 80. d.. n.d
.,o,,, ,,o III. -. or,.o.,.n 80 a
q. e., h.oa... q, q ,,o,,n, o,d ,.nder
a., a. 4. h,oL. tn. o..,;o,, .,,,
he asked ,cby are not all Leoyes for tea
,naki,,o oothered uben then ara youno
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-07-09

Araby Pasha, who is British prisoner of
war in .Ceylon, has bungalow near Co
lombo and the companionship of his eldest
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-07-09
GREAT SHIP CANALS.
ENTERPRISES FOR WHICH THIS
CENTURY WILL BE FAMOUS.

Denmark to be Converted Into an Island
by a Canal from the North Sea to the
Baltic-AncIent and Modern Waterways
Across the Land--lmmense Undertakings.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-07-09
An Actress and Her Rage.

Actress-We!l, go ahead, you heartle3s
wretch. Levy on the goods if you want to.
shan't pay the bill. So, therel
Constable-Sorry, mum. But I'm afeard
you'll have to.
Actress | won't. That bill was
contracted when was minor. 1t can't be
collected now.
Constable-You must be thinking of some
other bill, mum. This claim is only twenty
seven years old.
Actress-Oh, well, I'll pay it then.
thought it was a relic of one of my early
tours-O,adhd Herald
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-07-09
CARRIER PIGEONS FOR WAR.
The Military DOve-cOtes of German
France and Russia.

The Military DOve-cOtes of Germany,
France and Russia.
The Germans were among the first to es-
tablish military pigeon-lofts, and their sys-
tenn is now the most complete in Europe.
The larger fortresses like Metz, Cologne and
Strasbourg each has from 400 to 600
well-trained birds; and the annual vote
of credit for pigeon purposes in the mill
tary budget is $500. The commandant
of the place is responsible for the birds
being properly cared for and trained,
and they are in charge of q non-com-
missioned officer, who has under him
two private soldiers and a keeper. Reg
listers are kept giving full particulars con-
corning all the birds-the numbers stamped
on them, their age, sex, color, distinguishing
marks, and the different places from which
each has flown, together with notes on their
rapidity and reliability. Among the fortresses
which were early stocked with birds were
those near the Russian frontier-Posen,
Thon and Konigsberg; and others were
gradually attended to, until at the present
time it may be said that every part of the
country is in communication either directly
or indirectly, with the capital by means of
pigeons. The northern coast is. in fact,
lished at Tonning, Dantzig. Stettin and Kiel.
On the western frontier Cologne is in direct
communication with Berlin, distance of
300 miles, and is a transmitting sta
ton for Metz and Mayence. Strasbourg
and Metz also communicate with the capital
throu gh Wurzburg.
In France the vote of credit for the pigeon
lofts is $50, 600. Ten stations have birds
trained from Paris and important towns at
great distances communicate with the CAPT.
tai by intermediate stations. Thus Lyons
transmits to Paris by way of Langres which
likewise communicates with Marseilles and
Pepignan. The military authorities have
power to requisitiOn all lofts of trained pig
cons belonging to private persons, and cen
sus is regularly made of their number. The
census taken last year showed that in Paris
alone there were $500 birds available, of
which l 1888 had been well trained, and might
be relied upon as likely to "home." Were
Paris, therefore, ever again in danger of being
besieged, these, together with the birds kept
at the various outside stations about GrenO-
BILE, the Pyrenees, the Alps and the import
ant towns in the north and south of the
country, would form means of COMMUNE
eating with the armies outside that might
play an important part in turning the tide
of the campaign.
Russia has recently voted a sum of $40, 600
for the maintenance of military pigeon-lofls,
it being thought that in Afghanistan and
other distant parts pigeons might, under
certain circumstances, be the best means Of
securing the maintenance of communication.
The Austrian authorities appreciate the
usefulness of these messengers in mountain
districts, and at the present time they have
under consideration the question of establish
ing pigeon lofts, in order to secure rapid
communicate IN between the fortresses of
the frontier and the mountain passes.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-07-09

very difficult to
operate this,
and the dan
ger of being
drowned on
the passage to
the shore was
almost as greA
as that of
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-07-09

tlOH VI uelDS TRUE geographical strait
in which the water finds its own level
1t Is to be hoped that time will declare
itself on the side of M. de Lesseps.
Since the year 1920 some fifty expedi-
tions have been organized for the pur-
pose of reporting upon the feasibility of
such an undertaking.
The great canal of the Old World has
a much higher historic record. Mention
is made by Herodotus of proposal for
cutting a waterway between the Medi-
terranean and the Red seas, and it is
probable that some channel did formerly
natural or artificial communication 1t
is impossible to determine. In either
case it must have gradually silted up.
Through many ages the thoughts of the
Western world were naturally directed
to a short cut TO the East. In Marlowe's
play of "Tamburlaine" occur these lines !:
And here, not far from Alexandria,
Whereas the Terrene and the Red sea meet,
Being distant less than full a hundred
leagues,
meant to cut channel to them both,
That men might quickly sail to India.
But though not 100 leagues, the 18th
mus of Suez was 100 miles broad, and
the project had naturally to wait for its
fulfillment. 1t was not till the year 1S47
that the idea, long entertained, of great
difference in level between the two seas
was proved to be erroneous; ard from
this time 1t was plain that a cs-.al was
possible.
The scheme for cutting the Isthmus of
Corinth is as old as the days of the
Cesars and both Julius Caesar and
Caligula devoted considerable attention
10 it, But Nero was the first to take
active steps toward its accomplishment.
He excsvated more than 1000 feet on the
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-11-16
How to Get Into Society.

In reading in various journals those
entertaining columns headed ANSWERS
to Correspondents" one cannot fail to
be struck with the persistent question,
"How shall l get into society P"
This question evnces laudable am
bition on the part OF the asker, and in
dicates the gregarious instincts of man.
Men herd together as instinctively as
buffalos; and the solitary man, who
from his Ishmaelite seclusion, hurls
his defiance at social forms and ameni-
ties, is woefully lacking in some of tho
essentials of human nature.
But we cannot help thinking that
this general difficulty in getting into
what's vaguely called Society" which
troubles so many of the qucstioners Of
the correspondents column, is largely
imaginary. 1t would do any such
solictous soul good to reflect that his
own society-the element of social
force which he represents
is just as necessary to the delecta-
ton of others as their society is
necessary to his happiness. A man is
just as sure to find his proper soc ETY.
as water is to find its level. No society
is congenial to man into which he
has not become rooted by process Of
natural growth. A tropical exotic in a
trigid soil is a man trying to grow in
society in which he is not indigenous.
Most of the bitter chickering's. jealous
les and heartburnings so common in
society are attributable to the trans
planted social growths who are trying
to flourish under conditions to which
they are adapted.
There is no need of n man searching
for society; his own will find him. He
cannot conceal himself from his natural
companionship; for his born brothers
will gravitate toward him with instinct
i've certainty. Let him rest in the as
surance that his own personality, by q
law of its growth. attracts to itself the
championship best fitted to its needs.
The stars come nightly to the skies,
The tidal waves unto the sea,
Nor time, nor space, nor deep, nor high,
Can keep my own away from me.
Yankee BLADE.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-11-16
'I>it Lost for Ever +"

the youthful bloom, the freshness OF
health, the buoyancy of spirits, aud all
trait goes to give pleasure and con-
tentment to heart made happy by
health? No; not lost forever. There
is hope for all. For those whose lives
have been q burden, and for those
who are now groveling in the very
sloughs OF dependency. DIR. Piercc's
T" Favorite Prescription will cure all
chronic disease peculiar to females. 1t
Will build up the system, and restore
health, strength, and beauty. Try IL
and be. convinced. Send ten cents in
stamps for large illustrated Treatise on
Diseases Peculiar to Women. Address,
Worlds Dispensary Medical Associa-
ton, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-11-16
Children Starving TO Death

On account of their inability to digest
food will find a most marvellous food
aud remedy in Scott's Emulsion OF
Pure Cod Liver Oil with Hypophos.
phites. Very palatablo and easily di
gestcd. Or. S. w. Cohen, of Waco,
Texas, says: Z" have used your Emul-
sion in infanti'e wasting with good re
suits. 1t not only restores wasted It's
sues, but gives strength and increa' os
the appetite. | am glad to use such a
reliable article"